Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically-acclaimed, award winning and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo (2018). It has been optioned for TV by Escape Artists/NBC. She has also written a YA novel for Simon Pulse entitled My Summer of Love and Misfortune. Wong is the author of the short story collection Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality and a novel The Cursed Bridesmaids of Maxyne-Marilyn Leung (Penguin Random House Canada, forthcoming). She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. Wong is a Part-Time Lecturer in Creative Nonfiction in the Optional-Residency MFA Program at The University of British Columbia. She is based in Burnaby, BC.

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• Lindsay is facilitating Workshop 3A on Sunday morning, August 7: 
  How to Start a Compelling Memoir (And Not Lose Your Mind).